Wire-fence.



UNITED STATES Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,019, dated June 7,1904.

Application filed Decembar 18, 1903. gerial No. 185,730. (No model.)

To (DZ/Z whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. BERRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Iowa City, in the county of J ohnson and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Wire Fence, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to wire fences, and has for its objects to produceacomparatively simple inexpensive device of this character which will bestrong and durable and in practice effectually withstand the strains towhich it is subjected and one in which the stay or filler wires will besusceptible of longitudinal contraction, thereby rendering the fabricyieldable in a vertical direction or longitudinally of the filler-wires.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of constructionand combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of awire fence embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view ofthe line and stay wires at one of the joints. Fig. 3 is a view similarto Fig. 2, showing a slightly-modified form of embodiment of theinvention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 1 designate a pair of fence-posts,disposed, respectively, at

oppositeends of the fence course, and 2, 3, 4, and 5 the horizontal lineor strand wires, spaced vertically one above another and extendedbetween the posts, to which they are attached in any suitable manner,while 6 is the vertical stay or filler wires, attached to andintersecting the horizontal strand-wires. These parts, except ashereinafter specified, may all be of the usualor any preferredconstruction and material. The stay or filler wires are in accordancewith my invention each composed of a plurality of sections or lengths 7,8, and 9, which extend each between a pair of the line-wires and are ofa length somewhat greater than the distance between the latter wires.

In practice the sections 7, 8, and 9 are arranged in parallelcontinuance and preferably with their meeting ends approaching eachother on'the same side of the line-wires to which they are attached, themeeting ends of the sections being united one with another,

thus producing,in efiect, continuous unbroken wires. As seen in Fig. 1,the sections 7, 8, and 9 are attached to the line-wires by wrapping theupper end of section 7 around the uppermost line-wire 2, the upper endof section 8 around the next line-wire 3, and the opposite ends ofsection 9 around the wires 4 and 5, respectively. The stay-wire sectionsare then connected by wrapping the initially-free end of section 7around the body of section 8 and the initially-free end of the latteraround the body of section 9, the ends of the sections being wrapped inthe form of knots or coils 10, which are free to slide on andlongitudinally of the respective sections to alimited extent, beinglimited in their upward movement by contact with the adjacent line-wiresand in their downward movement by a stop or abutment produced by forminga crimp 11 in the sections beneath the knots or coils 10.

In Fig. '3 the line-wires are crimpled, as at 12, to produce stops uponthe opposite sides of the knot or coil 13 of the filler-wire where theend of the latter is wrapped around the line-wire, and this in order toprevent lateral displacement of the filler-wire at the point of itsconnection with the line-wire. Otherwise the construction and operationis .identical with that above described, it being noted that in bothforms of the device longitudinal extension of'the sections relatively isprevented, while at the same time said sections may have a relativelongitudinal contractive movement to yield under vertical downwardpressure, such movement, however, being limited by means of the stops11.

From the foregoing it is apparent that I produce a device of simpleconstruction which upon the line-wire and the meeting end of the otherfiller-wire section being wrapped upon the body of the first-namedsection to produce a knot adapted for movement longitudinally of saidsection, and a stop provided on the section for limiting the movement ofthe knot in one direction its movement in the other direction beinglimited by the line-wire.

2. A fence comprising a line-wire having spaced stops provided thereonand a filler-wire composed of a plurality of sections, the end of onefiller-wire section being wrapped upon the line-wire between the stopsand the meeting end of the other filler-wire section being wrapped uponthe body of the first-named section to produce a knot adapted formovement longitudinally of said section, and a stop provided on thesection for limiting the movement of the knot in one direction, itsmovement in the other direction being limited by the line-Wire.

3. A fence comprising a line-wire having spaced crimps producing stopsthereon and a filler-wire composed of a plurality of sections, one endof one filler wire section being Wrapped upon the line wire between thecrimps and the meeting end of the other fillerwire section being wrappedupon the body of the first-mentioned section to produce a knot adaptedfor movement longitudinally of said section, and a crimp formed in thelatter section to produce a stop for limiting the movement of the knotin one direction, its movement in the other direction being limited bythe line-wire.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES W. BERRY.

Witnesses:

R. P. HOWELL, A. M. SHAFF.

